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<div class="entry_content"><h1 class="pagetitle">love</h1><div class="dictionary"><div class="wordfams">
            			<span class="asset_intro">Word family</span>
                         <span class="pos">
                    (noun)
                </span> <a title="love" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/love#love__8">love</a> <a title="lover" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/lover">lover</a> loveliness. <a title="lovey" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/lovey">lovey</a>  <span class="pos">
                    (adjective)
                </span> <a title="lovable" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/lovable">lovable</a><span class="opp"><span class="neutral span"> ≠ </span>unlovable</span> <a title="loveless" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/loveless">loveless</a> <a title="lovely" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/lovely">lovely</a> <a title="loving" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/loving">loving</a> <a title="unloved" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/unloved">unloved</a>  <span class="pos">
                    (verb)
                </span> <span title="love" class="w">love</span>  <span class="pos">
                    (adverb)
                </span> <a title="lovingly" class="crossRef w" href="/dictionary/loving">lovingly</a> </div><!-- End of DIV wordfams--><span class="dictentry"><span class="dictionary_intro span">From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English</span><span class="dictlink"><span class="ldoceEntry Entry"><span class="frequent Head"><span class="HWD">love</span><span class="HYPHENATION">love</span><span class="HOMNUM">1</span><span class="PronCodes"><span class="neutral span"> /</span><span class="PRON">lʌv</span><span class="neutral span">/</span></span> <span class="tooltip LEVEL" title="Core vocabulary: High-frequency"> ●●●</span> <span class="FREQ" title="Top 1000 spoken words">S1</span> <span class="FREQ" title="Top 1000 written words">W1</span><span class="POS"> verb</span><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/breProns/brelasdelove.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker brefile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play British pronunciation of love"> </span><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/ameProns/love1.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker amefile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play American pronunciation of love"> </span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__1"><span class="sensenum span">1</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">romantic attraction</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>transitive not in progressive<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">LOVE</span><span class="DEF"> to have a <a class="defRef" title="strong" href="/dictionary/strong">strong</a> feeling of <span class="NonDV"><a class="defRef" title="affection" href="/dictionary/affection">affection</a></span> for someone, <a class="defRef" title="combine" href="/dictionary/combine">combined</a> with <a class="defRef" title="sexual" href="/dictionary/sexual">sexual</a> <a class="defRef" title="attraction" href="/dictionary/attraction">attraction</a></span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519810.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I love you, Tracy.</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519811.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>He was the only man she had ever loved.</span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__2"><span class="sensenum span">2</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">care about</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>transitive not in progressive<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">LOVE</span><span class="DEF"> to <a class="defRef" title="care" href="/dictionary/care">care</a> very much about someone, especially a <a class="defRef" title="member" href="/dictionary/member">member</a> of your family or a close <a class="defRef" title="friend" href="/dictionary/friend">friend</a></span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740230.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I love my grandad so much.</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519817.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I’ve always loved children.</span><span class="ColloExa"><span class="COLLO">much-loved/well-loved</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519820.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>In 1941, her much-loved sister was killed in an accident.</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519824.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>Many people feel guilty after the death of a <span class="COLLOINEXA">loved one</span>.</span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__3"><span class="sensenum span">3</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">like/enjoy</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>transitive<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">ENJOY/LIKE DOING something</span><span class="DEF"> to like something very much or <a class="defRef" title="enjoy" href="/dictionary/enjoy">enjoy</a> doing something very much</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519835.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I love carrots.</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519836.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>Jeff loves his work.</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740232.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I love the way she sings that song.</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740233.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>Amy had always loved New York.</span><span class="GramExa"><span class="PROPFORM">love doing something</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740236.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I love going out to restaurants.</span></span><span class="GramExa"><span class="PROPFORM">love to do something</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740239.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>We all love to talk about ourselves.</span></span><span class="ColloExa"><span class="COLLO">I’d love to (do something)</span><span class="REGISTERLAB"> spoken</span><span class="GLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>used to say that you would really like to do something<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519845.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>‘Would you like to come swimming with us?’ ‘I’d love to.’</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519846.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I’d have loved to have stayed till the end.</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519847.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I’d love to know just why they did that.</span></span><span class="Thesref"><span class="thesref span">► <span class="neutral span">see </span>thesaurus<span class="neutral span"> at </span></span><a title="like" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/like#like__31"> <span class="REFHWD">like</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__4"><span class="sensenum span">4</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">loyalty</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>transitive not in progressive<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">LIKE somebody OR something</span><span class="DEF"> to have a strong feeling of <a class="defRef" title="loyalty" href="/dictionary/loyalty">loyalty</a> to your country, an <a class="defRef" title="institution" href="/dictionary/institution">institution</a> etc</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001519858.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>Dad’s always loved the navy.</span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__5"><span class="sensenum span">5</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="I love it!" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/i-love-it"> <span class="REFHWD">I love it!</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__6"><span class="sensenum span">6</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="somebody’s going to love something" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/somebody-s-going-to-love-something"> <span class="REFHWD">somebody’s going to love something</span></a></span></span><span class="Tail"><span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="lover" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/lover"> <span class="REFHWD">lover</span></a></span><span class="GramBox"><span class="heading span">Grammar</span><span class="newline HEADING">Patterns with love</span><span class="EXPL"><span class="neutral span">• </span><span>You </span><span class="EXPR">love</span><span> someone or something: </span><span class="EXAMPLE">I love my children.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">She loves jazz.</span><span> </span></span><span class="newline EXPL"><span class="neutral span">• </span><span>You </span><span class="EXPR">love doing</span><span> something: </span><span class="EXAMPLE">She loves listening to jazz.</span></span><span class="EXPL"><span class="neutral span">• </span><span>You </span><span class="EXPR">love to do</span><span> something: </span><span class="EXAMPLE">She loves to listen to jazz in her spare time.</span><span> </span><span class="CROSS"><span class="neutral span">✗</span></span><span class="dont_say">Don’t say: </span><span class="BADEXA"> She loves listen to jazz.</span></span><span class="newline EXPL"><span class="neutral span">• </span><span class="EXPR">Love doing</span><span> something and </span><span class="EXPR">love to do</span><span> something both mean the same thing. You use </span><span class="EXPR">love to do</span><span> especially when saying that someone does something regularly or often.</span></span><span class="newline HEADING">Using the progressive</span><span class="EXPL"><span class="neutral span">• </span><span>The usual rule is that</span><span class="EXPR"> love</span><span> is not used in the progressive. </span><span class="CROSS"><span class="neutral span">✗</span></span><span class="dont_say">Don’t say: </span><span class="BADEXA"> I am loving my children.</span><span> </span><span class="BADEXA"><span class="neutral span"> | </span>She is loving jazz.</span><span> </span></span><span class="newline EXPL"><span class="neutral span">• </span><span>In spoken English, people sometimes say </span><span class="EXPR">I’m loving</span><span> something they have just seen or heard: </span><span class="EXAMPLE">I’m loving his new show <span class="GLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>I like it a lot<span class="neutral span">)</span></span>.</span></span></span><span class="ThesBox"><span class="heading span">THESAURUS</span><span class="Section"><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">love</span><span class="DEF"> to like someone very much and care a lot about them – used especially about people in your family or someone who you are sexually <a class="defRef" title="attract" href="/dictionary/attract">attracted</a> to</span><span class="EXAMPLE">I love my wife and children very much.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">Have you ever said ‘I love you’ and not really meant it?</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">adore</span><span class="DEF"> to <a class="defRef" title="love" href="/dictionary/love">love</a> and <a class="defRef" title="admire" href="/dictionary/admire">admire</a> someone very much</span><span class="EXAMPLE">When she was a child she adored her father.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">be in love (with somebody)</span><span class="DEF"> to feel that you love someone and want to have a <a class="defRef" title="romantic" href="/dictionary/romantic">romantic</a> <a class="defRef" title="relationship" href="/dictionary/relationship">relationship</a> with them</span><span class="EXAMPLE">We were both young and very much in love.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">Karen was in love with a man who was much older than her.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">be infatuated with somebody</span><span class="DEF"> to love someone a lot and keep thinking about them, in a way that seems <a class="defRef" title="silly" href="/dictionary/silly">silly</a> because you do not know them very well</span><span class="EXAMPLE">He became infatuated with a woman he met at a conference.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">have a crush on somebody</span><span class="DEF"> to love and be sexually attracted to someone you are not having a relationship with, usually someone older</span><span class="EXAMPLE">Jane had a crush on the German teacher.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">be crazy about somebody</span><span class="REGISTERLAB"> informal</span><span class="DEF"> to love someone very much – used for <a class="defRef" title="emphasis" href="/dictionary/emphasis">emphasis</a></span><span class="EXAMPLE">She’s crazy about you.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">be devoted to somebody</span><span class="DEF">  to love someone very much and give them a lot of <a class="defRef" title="attention" href="/dictionary/attention">attention</a></span><span class="EXAMPLE">He was devoted to his wife and his children.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">dote on somebody</span><span class="REGISTERLAB"> written</span><span class="DEF"> to love someone very much, especially a much younger family member, and <a class="defRef" title="behave" href="/dictionary/behave">behave</a> very <a class="defRef" title="kindly" href="/dictionary/kindly#kindly__5">kindly</a> to them</span><span class="EXAMPLE">He dotes on his grandchildren.</span></span></span></span>                                                                                                  <div id='ad_contentslot_1' class='am-default contentslot'>
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                                     </span></span></span><span class="asset div"><a title="" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/love#love__26">→ See <span class="Crossrefto">Verb table</span></a></span><span class="asset div"><div class="yellow_box"><span class="asset_intro">Examples from the Corpus</span></div><!-- End of DIV yellow_box--></span><span class="assetlink"><span class="exaGroup cexa1 exaGroup"><span class="title">love</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>a much-loved <a class="defRef" title="author" href="/dictionary/author">author</a></span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Tom was the only man she had ever <span class="NodeW">loved</span>.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>You needn't <span class="NodeW">love</span> boxing-or even care for it-to <a class="defRef" title="appreciate" href="/dictionary/appreciate">appreciate</a> Toole's highly <a class="defRef" title="accomplish" href="/dictionary/accomplish">accomplished</a> <a class="defRef" title="debut" href="/dictionary/debut">debut</a>.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>We still <span class="NodeW">love</span> each other very much.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>And even <a class="defRef" title="crazy" href="/dictionary/crazy">crazier</a> to have told him that she <span class="NodeW">loved</span> him.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>He <span class="NodeW">loved</span> his <a class="defRef" title="stepdaughter" href="/dictionary/stepdaughter">stepdaughter</a> as if she were his own child.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>It is a <a class="defRef" title="heady" href="/dictionary/heady">heady</a>, <a class="defRef" title="exhilarate" href="/dictionary/exhilarate">exhilarating</a> feeling, and I <span class="NodeW">love</span> it.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Cassie works in the <a class="defRef" title="theatre" href="/dictionary/theatre">theatre</a>, and she really <span class="NodeW">loves</span> it.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>I really <a class="defRef" title="believe" href="/dictionary/believe">believed</a> that my <a class="defRef" title="parent" href="/dictionary/parent">parents</a> didn't <span class="NodeW">love</span> me.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Ben <span class="NodeW">loves</span> <a class="defRef" title="swim" href="/dictionary/swim">swimming</a>, playing <a class="defRef" title="tennis" href="/dictionary/tennis">tennis</a>, those <a class="defRef" title="kind" href="/dictionary/kind">kinds</a> of thing.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>It's <a class="defRef" title="incredible" href="/dictionary/incredible">incredible</a> how much she <span class="NodeW">loves</span> those two <a class="defRef" title="kid" href="/dictionary/kid">kids</a>.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>I <span class="NodeW">love</span> to <a class="defRef" title="hear" href="/dictionary/hear">hear</a> <a class="defRef" title="applause" href="/dictionary/applause">applause</a> between <a class="defRef" title="movement" href="/dictionary/movement">movements</a>.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>She <span class="NodeW">loved</span> to sit in the <a class="defRef" title="park" href="/dictionary/park">park</a> and <a class="defRef" title="feed" href="/dictionary/feed">feed</a> the <a class="defRef" title="duck" href="/dictionary/duck">ducks</a>.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Because he just <span class="NodeW">loves</span> to write.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>I <span class="NodeW">love</span> you, Betty.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>I <span class="NodeW">love</span> you so much now, it <a class="defRef" title="hurt" href="/dictionary/hurt">hurts</a>!</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Just <a class="defRef" title="relax" href="/dictionary/relax">relax</a> and <a class="defRef" title="let" href="/dictionary/let">let</a> me <span class="NodeW">love</span> you.</span><span class="cexa1g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>He <a class="defRef" title="stroke" href="/dictionary/stroke">stroked</a> her <a class="defRef" title="hair" href="/dictionary/hair">hair</a> and <a class="defRef" title="murmur" href="/dictionary/murmur">murmured</a>, "I <span class="NodeW">love</span> you."</span></span></span><span class="assetlink"><span class="exaGroup cexa1 exaGroup"><span class="title">loved one</span><span class="cexa1g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>How would anybody feel about the <a class="defRef" title="death" href="/dictionary/death">death</a> of a <span class="NodeW">loved one</span>?</span><span class="cexa1g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>About 30 years after the debut of the <a class="defRef" title="original" href="/dictionary/original">original</a>, the <a class="defRef" title="spy" href="/dictionary/spy">spies</a> who <span class="NodeW">loved one</span> another are <a class="defRef" title="marry" href="/dictionary/marry">married</a>.</span><span class="cexa1g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Volunteers in the sitting service have helped families lead relatively <a class="defRef" title="normal" href="/dictionary/normal">normal</a> lives while caring for their <span class="NodeW">loved one</span> at home.</span><span class="cexa1g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>And some wouldn't <a class="defRef" title="dream" href="/dictionary/dream">dream</a> of helping out, however <a class="defRef" title="disgusting" href="/dictionary/disgusting">disgusting</a> their <span class="NodeW">loved ones</span>' <a class="defRef" title="dish" href="/dictionary/dish">dishes</a>.</span><span class="cexa1g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span><a class="defRef" title="beware" href="/dictionary/beware">Beware</a> of <a class="defRef" title="carry" href="/dictionary/carry">carrying</a> a <a class="defRef" title="subtle" href="/dictionary/subtle">subtle</a> <a class="defRef" title="ploy" href="/dictionary/ploy">ploy</a> too <a class="defRef" title="far" href="/dictionary/far#far__22">far</a> <a class="defRef" title="today" href="/dictionary/today#today__3">today</a> or of letting a <span class="NodeW">loved one</span> get away with playing <a class="defRef" title="emotional" href="/dictionary/emotional">emotional</a> <a class="defRef" title="game" href="/dictionary/game">games</a>.</span><span class="cexa1g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>The death or incapacitating <a class="defRef" title="illness" href="/dictionary/illness">illness</a> of a <span class="NodeW">loved one</span> is always hard to take.</span><span class="cexa1g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>As we have <a class="defRef" title="discuss" href="/dictionary/discuss">discussed</a>, the <a class="defRef" title="survivor" href="/dictionary/survivor">survivors</a> need to feel <a class="defRef" title="involve" href="/dictionary/involve">involved</a> in their <span class="NodeW">loved one</span>'s <a class="defRef" title="die" href="/dictionary/die">dying</a> <a class="defRef" title="process" href="/dictionary/process">process</a> as much as <a class="defRef" title="possible" href="/dictionary/possible">possible</a>.</span></span></span><span class="assetlink"><span class="exaGroup cexa1 exaGroup"><span class="title">love doing something</span><span class="cexa1g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Katie loves playing tennis.</span></span></span></span><span class="dictentry"><span class="dictlink"><span class="ldoceEntry Entry" id="love__8"><div class="topics_container"><span class="related_topics">Related topics: </span><a class="topic" title="Tennis topic" href="/Tennis-topic/">Tennis</a></div><!-- End of DIV topics_container--><span class="frequent Head"><span class="HWD">love</span><span class="HYPHENATION">love</span><span class="HOMNUM">2</span> <span class="tooltip LEVEL" title="Core vocabulary: High-frequency"> ●●●</span> <span class="FREQ" title="Top 1000 spoken words">S1</span> <span class="FREQ" title="Top 1000 written words">W1</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/breProns/brelasdelove.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker brefile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play British pronunciation of love"> </span><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/ameProns/love1.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker amefile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play American pronunciation of love"> </span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__9"><span class="sensenum span">1</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">for family/friends</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">LOVE</span><span class="DEF"> a strong feeling of caring about someone, especially a member of your family or a close friend</span><span class="OPP"> <span class="synopp span">OPP</span> hate</span><span class="OPP"><span class="neutral span">, </span>hatred</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001520693.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>What these kids need is love and support.</span><span class="GramExa"><span class="PROPFORMPREP">love for</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001520696.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>a mother’s love for her child</span></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__10"><span class="sensenum span">2</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">romantic</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">LOVE</span><span class="DEF"> a strong feeling of <a class="defRef" title="liking" href="/dictionary/liking">liking</a> someone a lot combined with sexual attraction</span><span class="GramExa"><span class="PROPFORMPREP">love for</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740243.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>Their love for each other grew deeper every day.</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001520716.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>Tara is madly in love with you.</span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__11"><span class="sensenum span">3</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">person you love</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>countable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">LOVE</span><span class="DEF"> someone that you feel a strong romantic and sexual attraction to</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001520728.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>He was her <span class="COLLOINEXA">first love</span>.</span><span class="ColloExa"><span class="COLLO">the love of your life</span><span class="GLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>the person that you feel or felt the most love for<span class="neutral span">)</span></span></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__12"><span class="sensenum span">4</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">pleasure/enjoyment</span><span class="Subsense"> <span class="sensenum span">a)</span> <span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span">[</span>singular, uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">ENJOY/LIKE DOING something</span><span class="DEF"> a strong feeling of <a class="defRef" title="pleasure" href="/dictionary/pleasure">pleasure</a> and <a class="defRef" title="enjoyment" href="/dictionary/enjoyment">enjoyment</a> that something gives you</span><span class="GramExa"><span class="PROPFORMPREP">love of/for</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740264.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>my love of nature</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740265.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>He <span class="COLLOINEXA">had a</span> great <span class="COLLOINEXA">love</span> of music.</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001740271.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>I <span class="COLLOINEXA">fell in love with</span> Amsterdam the very first time I visited the city.</span></span><span class="Subsense"> <span class="sensenum span">b)</span> <span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span">[</span>countable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="ACTIV">ENJOY/LIKE DOING something</span><span class="DEF"> something that gives you a lot of pleasure and enjoyment</span><span class="EXAMPLE"><span data-src-mp3="https://d27ucmmhxk51xv.cloudfront.net/media/english/exaProns/p008-001520745.mp3?version=1.1.55" class="speaker exafile fa fa-volume-up hideOnAmp" title="Play Example"> </span>Sailing was her great love.</span></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__13"><span class="sensenum span">5</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="make love (to/with somebody)" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/make-love-to-with-somebody"> <span class="REFHWD">make love (to/with somebody)</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__14"><span class="sensenum span">6</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="send/give your love (to somebody), " class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/send-give-your-love-to-somebody"> <span class="REFHWD">send/give your love (to somebody), </span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__15"><span class="sensenum span">7</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="love (from somebody)/lots of love/all my love" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/love-from-somebody-lots-of-love-all-my-love"> <span class="REFHWD">love (from somebody)/lots of love/all my love</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__16"><span class="sensenum span">8</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="(my) love" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/my-love"> <span class="REFHWD">(my) love</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__17"><span class="sensenum span">9</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="be a love and .../... there’s a love" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/be-a-love-and-there-s-a-love"> <span class="REFHWD">be a love and .../... there’s a love</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__18"><span class="sensenum span">10</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="there is no love lost between somebody and somebody" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/there-is-no-love-lost-between-somebody-and-somebody"> <span class="REFHWD">there is no love lost between somebody and somebody</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__19"><span class="sensenum span">11</span> <span class="SIGNPOST">tennis</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="FIELD">DST</span><span class="DEF"> an <a class="defRef" title="expression" href="/dictionary/expression">expression</a> meaning ‘no points’, used in the game of tennis</span>                                                                                                  <div id='ad_contentslot_2' class='am-default contentslot'>
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                                     </span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__20"><span class="sensenum span">12</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="not for love or/nor money" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/not-for-love-or-nor-money"> <span class="REFHWD">not for love or/nor money</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__21"><span class="sensenum span">13</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="love triangle" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/love-triangle"> <span class="REFHWD">love triangle</span></a></span></span><span class="newline Sense" id="love__22"><span class="sensenum span">14</span> <span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><a title="for the love of God" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/for-the-love-of-god"> <span class="REFHWD">for the love of God</span></a></span></span><span class="Tail"><span class="Crossref"><span class="neutral span"> →</span><span class="REFLEX"> a labour of love</span><a title="labour" class="crossRef" href="/dictionary/a-labour-of-love"> <span class="REFHWD"><span class="neutral span">at </span>labour</span><span class="REFHOMNUM">1</span><span class="REFSENSENUM"><span class="refsensenum span">(</span>4<span class="refsensenum span">)</span></span></a></span><span class="ColloBox"><span class="heading span">COLLOCATIONS</span><span class="HEADING"><span class="neutral span"> – </span>Meaning 2: a strong feeling of liking someone a lot combined with sexual attraction</span><span class="Section"><span class="SECHEADING">verbs</span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">be in love</span><span class="EXAMPLE">Are you in love with her?</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">fall in love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>start being in love<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">I fell in love with her the minute I saw her.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">find love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>meet someone to love<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">I never thought I would find love.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">return somebody’s love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>love someone who loves you<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">Estella does not return Pip’s love.</span></span></span><span class="Section"><span class="SECHEADING">phrases</span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">love at first sight</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>when you love someone as soon as you meet them<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">For Marion and Ron it was love at first sight.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">very much in love</span><span class="EXAMPLE">They were obviously very much in love.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">madly/deeply in love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>very much in love<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">I married Dan because I was madly in love.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">head over heels in love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>very much in love<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">The two of them fell head over heels in love.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">love is blind</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>used to say that people do not notice the faults of the person they love<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">Love is blind, I guess. How else could he stand to be with her?</span></span></span><span class="Section"><span class="SECHEADING">adjectives</span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">true love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>real love<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">She felt that she had finally found true love.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">real love</span><span class="EXAMPLE">You could see real love in their eyes.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">romantic love</span><span class="EXAMPLE">Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">sexual love</span><span class="EXAMPLE">Venus was the Roman goddess of sexual love.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">unrequited love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>love for someone who does not love you<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">She had a secret, unrequited love for Harrison.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">undying love</span><span class="COLLGLOSS"><span class="neutral span"> (=</span>love that does not stop<span class="neutral span">)</span></span><span class="EXAMPLE">She and I swore undying love.</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">passionate love</span><span class="EXAMPLE">He wrote about his passionate love for her.</span></span></span><span class="Section"><span class="SECHEADING">love + NOUN</span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">a love song/story</span><span class="EXAMPLE">a tragic love story</span></span><span class="Collocate"><span class="collo COLLOC">a love letter</span><span class="EXAMPLE">She found a love letter from another woman in his wallet.</span></span></span></span>                                                                                                  <div id='ad_contentslot_3' class='am-default contentslot'>
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                                     <span class="ThesBox"><span class="heading span">THESAURUS</span><span class="Section"><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">love</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="DEF"> a feeling of liking someone very much and caring a lot about them – used about people in your family, or someone you feel sexually attracted to</span><span class="EXAMPLE">All children need love, attention, and encouragement.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">We don’t need words to express our love for each other.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">affection</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="DEF"> a <a class="defRef" title="gentle" href="/dictionary/gentle">gentle</a> feeling of love which makes you want to be kind to someone and show them that you love them – used especially about friends and members of your family</span><span class="EXAMPLE">My mother never showed us us any affection.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">Alison and I had been at school together, and I felt great affection for her.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">devotion</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="DEF"> very strong love for someone in which you want to give them a lot of attention and look after them – used especially about strong <a class="defRef" title="feeling" href="/dictionary/feeling">feelings</a> of love for your <a class="defRef" title="wife" href="/dictionary/wife">wife</a>, <a class="defRef" title="husband" href="/dictionary/husband">husband</a>, children etc</span><span class="EXAMPLE">His recovery is largely due to the devotion of his wife and family</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">passion</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="DEF"> a strong and <a class="defRef" title="excite" href="/dictionary/excite">exciting</a> feeling of love for someone you are extremely sexually attracted to</span><span class="EXAMPLE">He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">There was no passion in their relationship.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">infatuation</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>countable, uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="DEF"> a strong feeling of love for someone, in which you cannot stop thinking about them, and which seems silly because you do not know them very well</span><span class="EXAMPLE">She hoped that his ridiculous infatuation would soon wear off.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">His infatuation with Diane seemed to be growing.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">a childhood infatuation</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">romance</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>uncountable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="DEF"> the feeling of <a class="defRef" title="loving" href="/dictionary/loving">loving</a> someone and the <a class="defRef" title="nice" href="/dictionary/nice">nice</a> things you do to show this – used about someone you are sexually attracted to</span><span class="EXAMPLE">The romance had gone out of their relationship.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">In the UK, one in ten people have found romance over the Internet.</span></span><span class="Exponent"><span class="display EXP">crush</span><span class="POS"> noun</span><span class="GRAM"><span class="neutral span"> [</span>countable<span class="neutral span">]</span></span><span class="DEF"> a very strong feeling of love and sexual attraction for someone such as a <a class="defRef" title="teacher" href="/dictionary/teacher">teacher</a> or a <a class="defRef" title="famous" href="/dictionary/famous">famous</a> person, especially when there is no <a class="defRef" title="chance" href="/dictionary/chance">chance</a> of you having a relationship with that person because you are much younger than them </span><span class="EXAMPLE">She had a teenage crush on one of her teachers.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">I had a big crush on Tom Cruise when I was growing up.</span><span class="EXAMPLE">a schoolgirl crush</span></span></span></span>                                                                                                  <div id='ad_contentslot_4' class='am-default contentslot'>
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                                     </span></span></span><span class="asset div"><div class="yellow_box"><span class="asset_intro">Examples from the Corpus</span></div><!-- End of DIV yellow_box--></span><span class="assetlink"><span class="exaGroup cexa2 exaGroup"><span class="title">love</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>I used to <a class="defRef" title="read" href="/dictionary/read">read</a> books about <span class="NodeW">love</span>.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>The <a class="defRef" title="authoritative" href="/dictionary/authoritative">authoritative</a>, <a class="defRef" title="dedicate" href="/dictionary/dedicate">dedicated</a>, and <a class="defRef" title="benign" href="/dictionary/benign">benign</a> <a class="defRef" title="conductor" href="/dictionary/conductor">conductor</a> was Williams Llewellyn, whose <a class="defRef" title="knowledge" href="/dictionary/knowledge">knowledge</a> and <span class="NodeW">love</span> for the <a class="defRef" title="score" href="/dictionary/score">score</a> was <a class="defRef" title="obvious" href="/dictionary/obvious">obvious</a>.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Only his <a class="defRef" title="tear" href="/dictionary/tear">tears</a> <a class="defRef" title="speak" href="/dictionary/speak">spoke</a> of <a class="defRef" title="brotherly" href="/dictionary/brotherly">brotherly</a> <span class="NodeW">love</span>.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span><a class="defRef" title="jack" href="/dictionary/jack">Jack</a> was her first <span class="NodeW">love</span>.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>She was never <a class="defRef" title="able" href="/dictionary/able">able</a> to <a class="defRef" title="express" href="/dictionary/express">express</a> her <span class="NodeW">love</span> for Henry.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>And though they regularly <a class="defRef" title="clash" href="/dictionary/clash">clashed</a>, they were undoubtedly in <span class="NodeW">love</span>.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>All children need <span class="NodeW">love</span>, attention, and <a class="defRef" title="encouragement" href="/dictionary/encouragement">encouragement</a>.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Finally, it never hurts to <a class="defRef" title="wear" href="/dictionary/wear">wear</a> our own <span class="NodeW">love</span> of reading on our <a class="defRef" title="sleeve" href="/dictionary/sleeve">sleeve</a>.</span><span class="cexa2g1 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>She <a class="defRef" title="nourish" href="/dictionary/nourish">nourishes</a> a <a class="defRef" title="secret" href="/dictionary/secret">secret</a>, <a class="defRef" title="unrequited" href="/dictionary/unrequited">unrequited</a> <span class="NodeW">love</span> for <a class="defRef" title="harry" href="/dictionary/harry">Harry</a>.</span></span></span><span class="assetlink"><span class="exaGroup cexa2 exaGroup"><span class="title">love for</span><span class="cexa2g2 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>a mother's <span class="NodeW">love for</span> her child</span></span></span><span class="assetlink"><span class="exaGroup cexa2 exaGroup"><span class="title">first love</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>We love because he <span class="NodeW">first loved</span> us.</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Roland heard her <a class="defRef" title="voice" href="/dictionary/voice">voice</a> again, <a class="defRef" title="remember" href="/dictionary/remember">remembered</a> all that had happened, and fell for his <span class="NodeW">first love</span>.</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span><a class="defRef" title="brown" href="/dictionary/brown">Brown</a> wrote his <a class="defRef" title="novel" href="/dictionary/novel">novels</a> and <a class="defRef" title="fade" href="/dictionary/fade">faded</a> back into his <span class="NodeW">first love</span> like a man whose <a class="defRef" title="ego" href="/dictionary/ego">ego</a> needed <a class="defRef" title="fresh" href="/dictionary/fresh">fresh</a> <a class="defRef" title="air" href="/dictionary/air">air</a> and nothing more.</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>I must have been about fifteen when I <a class="defRef" title="receive" href="/dictionary/receive">received</a> my <span class="NodeW">first love</span> <a class="defRef" title="letter" href="/dictionary/letter">letter</a>.</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>The <a class="defRef" title="sea" href="/dictionary/sea">sea</a> was my <span class="NodeW">first love</span>, but now the <a class="defRef" title="hill" href="/dictionary/hill">hills</a> have an <a class="defRef" title="equal" href="/dictionary/equal">equal</a> <a class="defRef" title="claim" href="/dictionary/claim">claim</a> to my affection.</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Elizabeth Taylor was my <span class="NodeW">first love</span>.</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Ah, the <a class="defRef" title="innocence" href="/dictionary/innocence">innocence</a> of <span class="NodeW">first love</span>.</span><span class="cexa2g3 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>The <a class="defRef" title="sweet" href="/dictionary/sweet">sweet</a>, tinkling sound of a <a class="defRef" title="music" href="/dictionary/music">music</a> <a class="defRef" title="box" href="/dictionary/box">box</a> can <a class="defRef" title="stir" href="/dictionary/stir">stir</a> <a class="defRef" title="recollection" href="/dictionary/recollection">recollections</a> of everything from <a class="defRef" title="childhood" href="/dictionary/childhood">childhood</a> to <span class="NodeW">first love</span>.</span></span></span><span class="assetlink"><span class="exaGroup cexa2 exaGroup"><span class="title">love of/for</span><span class="cexa2g4 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>Jerrod has a <span class="NodeW">love for</span> the game of <a class="defRef" title="chess" href="/dictionary/chess">chess</a>.</span><span class="cexa2g4 exa"><span class="neutral span">• </span>A <span class="NodeW">love of</span> <a class="defRef" title="fly" href="/dictionary/fly">flying</a> <a class="defRef" title="statistic" href="/dictionary/statistic">Statistics</a> <a class="defRef" title="aside" href="/dictionary/aside#aside__6">aside</a>, Steve <a class="defRef" title="butler" href="/dictionary/butler">Butler</a> <a class="defRef" title="admit" href="/dictionary/admit">admits</a> that his job <a class="defRef" title="sometime" href="/dictionary/sometime#sometime__2">sometimes</a> 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